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Bruce Hunter zipped through the 50-and 100-yard freestyles in excellent times. Diver Chick Montgomery, performing on a low board, defeated two strong Dartmouth...
...Cubana airlines, was flying from Havana to the Cuban city of Cienfuegos eight months ago when rebels fighting for Fidel Castro popped up among the passengers, commandeered the plane, forced Piedra to head for Mexico. A fortnight ago it fell to Piedra, who is also a good amateur skin-diver, to dive to the sunken hull of a Cubana airlines Viscount that crashed and killed 17 of 20 passengers when rebel hijackers tried to force it to land near Cuba's Nipe Bay (TIME, Nov. 10). By last week, when Piedra took a Cubana DC-3 up from...
...years ago, tireless Inventor Link took up another hobby-deep-sea diving. Already, Link has co-developed a deep-sea diver's underwater scooter, a torpedo shaped like a hotel hallway's fire extinguisher that tows a diver along behind. Link is building a 91-ft. Diesel yacht specifically designed for undersea exploration with such gadgets as an underwater metal locater for hunting wrecks and buried treasure, so sensitive it picks up tin cans. Next year, Link hopes to use the boat to explore the sunken Roman seaport of Caesarea, off the coast of Israel...
Gurgled Defiance. No diver till he took the job. Bridges has quickly become the world's best-known underwater actor, picks up tidy extra income on his merchandising tie-in with a rubber company that makes "Mike Nelson" flippers, masks, snorkels and rubber boats. His 52 sponsors across the U.S. are elated with Sea Hunt's showing, will doubtless keep Bridges going off the deep end next year. He will continue to expose marine-insurance frauds, nab below-surface smugglers of aliens, rescue other hapless souls trapped in the deep, cut short careers of skindiving robbers who prey...
Princeton has but one good swimmer, Bob Gibbon, who swims the 100-yard freestyle and possibly either the 220 or 440-yard freestyles. He has done the 100 in 53.7, which is about the same time that Koni Ulbrich and Tom Cochran perform. Diver Al Routh is also a threat to defeat the Crimson's Greg Stone...